Can you provide me a topic for an essay on world civilization and an attention grabber?

In an essay, an attention grabber is known as the essay hook.  To help you out on your world civilization essay, we have put together a few topics, essay hooks, and thesis statements you could use for a world civilization essay.

World Civilization Essay Topics

1. To what extent does the character Khal Drago from Game of Thrones resemble the real-life warlord, leader, and destroyer Genghis Khan?
2. An exploration of the well-known Barbarian leader, Attila the Hun and how his actual behavior and history conflicts with his reputation as an uncultured and vicious leader, including investigation into his education, his use of diplomacy, and his rejection of wealth and status symbols.  
3. Linking the Magna Carta with later documents that called for government recognition of human rights, most notably the Declaration of Independence. 
4. An exploration of the alleged war crimes and atrocities commited by Romanian hero Vlad Tepes/ Vlad Dracula/ Vlad the Impaler. 
5. Exploring the similarities and differences between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthal Man.

World Civilization Essay Hooks

1. Westeros may be fictional, but Khal Drago was real. 
2. The fierce barbarian warrior Attila the Hun was killed by a nosebleed on his wedding night. 
3. The Magna Carta was the first Declaration of Independence.
4. The historical Vlad Tepes was more bloodthirsty than the vampire Dracula, which he inspired.
5. Oft-derided as dim-witted cavemen, Neanderthal Men were actually the world’s first artists.

World Civilization Essay Thesis Statements

1. The fictional character Khal Drago is substantially similar to a real-life warlord that was connected to a tribe of renowned horsemen, Genghis Khan, the leader of the Mongols. 
2. Despite the modern-day reputation of Barbarians, their best known leader, Attila the Hun, was educated as a gentleman, initially used diplomacy in his relations with the Romans, eschewed the appearance of wealth, and died mysteriously on his wedding night.
3. The Magna Carta signaled the beginning of government recognition of the inherent rights of humans.
4. Despite his reputation as a gruesome torturer and his reputation being tied to that of the fictional Dracula, Vlad Dracula, also known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, was one of the most important rulers in Wallachia and remains a hero in Romania.
5. While Neanderthal Men are often depicted as being less evolved than modern humans, there is substantial evidence that they were actually more advanced than their homo sapien counterparts, leading one to wonder if some of the advances of modern man are attributable to the Neanderthal DNA that permeates much of the modern human genome.

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